Letter: Voter ID is a necessity

EDITOR: Most consider carp a rough fish good only for fertilizing gardens. To catch this trash fish you must buy a fishing license. To get your first Wisconsin license as an adult you need to provide your height, weight, hair color, eye color, Social Security number, date of birth and gender and you must pay a fee.

How important is this carp compared to your vote? Our identity is demanded for so many opportunities it is a sham to think it should not be required to vote. Vote fraud is a major problem.

Fox News reported, "thousands of registered voters with personal information matching those of voters who voted in other states in 2012." In recorded video, James O'Keefe showed that it was possible to use the names of dead people to vote. He also asked if any ID were required and was told it was not. In New York, "According to a report in Newsday, 26,000 dead people are registered to vote statewide."

We must have photo IDs.

The American Thinker wrote, "Lawyers say that fraud is the most difficult crime to prove because showing that the act complained of actually happened is not enough. It must be proven that the perpetrator had intent to defraud. Like any fraud, voter fraud is by its nature generally very difficult to detect and prosecute."

In 59 precincts in Philadelphia and nine in Cleveland, presidential candidate Mitt Romney received zero votes. A blog called 1389 said it best, "Those 68 precincts are in the battleground states of Ohio and Pennsylvania. That outcome is so statistically improbable that we can just go ahead and call it impossible."

Joseph Stalin is quoted as saying, "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." We must be able to verify votes.

Al Ose,

Wisconsin Rapids

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Letter: Voter ID is a necessity

EDITOR: Most consider carp a rough fish good only for fertilizing gardens. To catch this trash fish you must buy a fishing license.

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